Firefox. A story of a best browser that changed into a privacy freak software
Firefox 74
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#172The Facebook container is great, but I wish there was an option for the built-in Multi-Account containers to work this way. I've been doing what the Facebook Container extension does, but with built-in containers, and the experience is very clunky. The two biggest issues are that I can't give the container a list of domains beforehand and say "everything under google.com should open here". I have to go to each Google…
Do you know if there is any way one can configure a container to disable specific extensions?
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#173> When a video is uploaded with a batch of photos on Instagram ... Features just for insta? I thought this was a web browser not an instagram browser. I guess same goes for the facebook container... what's up with building browser features for facebook? Why no reddit container, or google container, or amazon container?
> When a video is uploaded with a batch of photos on Instagram ...
They fixed a site-specific bug. It takes some creativity (and a strategically short quote) to get outraged over a browser update improving how the browser renders websites.
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#174I wish Firefox had a good multi-account support like Chrome has. That, and the fact that iOS 14 might allow to set your default browser would make me move to use Firefox everywhere.
I wish Firefox on iOS had ad-blocker - that's the only thing preventing me from switching on my iPhone.
On iOS, all the browsers share the Content Blockers you install and enable in Settings (system wide). Install Firefox Focus (a single tab browser), which comes with its own Content Blocker.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could they just use your email address?
psst ... check out https://monitor.firefox.com/protect-my-email
That helps only for breaches involving specific email addresses. What the GP is hinting at is Facebook having your email address and you using the same email address on a site for a purchase. Sellers usually upload their customers' email addresses on to Facebook and other social media platforms so that they can target these users better. So if you use the same email address everywhere, then linking all your interactions and transactions is a certainty.
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#176I don't know what is up with mozilla/firefox. I'm still using firefox but not because I like it, only because the alternatives are worse. I signed up for a firefox account almost right after they were announced. At the time and multiple times since I've unsubscribed from "all" their emails because I'm not interested in them. They just either invent a new list and auto-subscribe me to it or they just ignore my prefere…
I've been using Firefox since they announced their major overhaul whenever that was, and got a Firefox account to sync with when that became available -- I don't remember getting any email from them at all.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because I trust Mozilla with my data. Would love it to support alternative backends, like NextCloud, though.
I would suggest bitwarden, it's fully open source. I switched to it from Mozilla, mostly because of the sharing.
I use Bitwarden, but don't really like the UX. It being a one person endeavor seems to make the rate of improvement quite slow.
The app itself is quite slow to open on the platforms I've used it on. Searching for items is also slow. It doesn't allow for custom types (like WiFi, software licenses and other things), like the commercial ones do.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
This extension removes the URL intercept/redirect on Gmail and many other sites: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/skip-redirect... This one handles the other situation, tracking parameters added to the URL that are intentionally passed to the target site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/
Thanks for the link. I just spent a few minutes looking at this extention’s creator’s github activity. Installing this will be my first todo list activity whenever I first use my laptop today. That redirect always bugged me. EDIT: I just noticed on the install page "This is not a Recommended Extension. Make sure you trust it before installing.Learn more" which is annoying.
ClearURLs by Kevin R. is recommended by Mozilla, so maybe that's a better option:
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#180I don't know what is up with mozilla/firefox. I'm still using firefox but not because I like it, only because the alternatives are worse. I signed up for a firefox account almost right after they were announced. At the time and multiple times since I've unsubscribed from "all" their emails because I'm not interested in them. They just either invent a new list and auto-subscribe me to it or they just ignore my prefere…
I've been using Firefox since they announced their major overhaul whenever that was, and got a Firefox account to sync with when that became available -- I don't remember getting any email from them at all.
Same for me